In early 2009 we received a CPU cooler sample from a Taiwanese company previously
unknown to us. It arrived with little fanfare in a battered plain box with few
markings. That product was the
Prolimatech Megahalems which decisively outperformed all of the heatsinks
we had tested previously. Prolimatech had only been founded the year before,
and banked their success on the Megahalems, the company's only product at the
time.

The Megahalems remains near the top of our performance
chart, at least amongst single fan coolers. It was a huge cooler in
its day, but its size is not uncommon inowadays. Like many other PC enthusiast
products, CPU heatsinks have continued growing. We're now seeing even larger
behemoths that have ballooned to well over 1 kilogram thanks to the trend of
dual fan designs. The Genesis is Prolimatech's big dual 14 cm fan cooler, a
unique design to take on the latest titanic competitors.

The box.

The package contents.

Like other dual fan heatsinks, the Genesis features a split design, with heatpipes
and fins separated into two distinct portions. However the Genesis has made
the unorthodox move of twisting the heatpipes so that the second section is
perpendicular to the first, parallel with the motherboard. There's a vertical
fin-stack on the rear side that stands tall like every other tower cooler, and
a horizontal one that sits off to the opposite side of the CPU socket, hanging
above the memory slots. It is a hybrid design that provides both side-to-side
and top-down airflow.

Mounting hardware.

Prolimatech also finally showed AMD some love by supporting AMD mounting out
of the box for the Genesis. Their previous coolers such as the Megahalems and
Armageddon were Intel only,
with an AMD mounting kit offered separately. This time around all modern desktop
sockets are supported from AM2 to AM3 and LGA775 to LGA1366. The gear is packed
in a myriad of plastic bags, separating each set of screws in an obsessive compulsive
manner.

The Red Vortex 14 LED.

Like earlier Prolimatech heatsinks, the Genesis ships bare without any fans.
However, a pair of their aftermarket LED fans were also supplied. The Red
Vortex 14 LED is a translucent 14 cm 1000 RPM fan with a sleeve bearings,
a 3-pin connector, and red LEDs adhered to the corners with thick globs of glue.
The package comes with a 3-pin to molex adapter and standard fan screws.